(December 3, 2005)
Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P. has issued the following
announcement regarding a community meeting on a rezoning request on
a parcel located at the northeast corner of Arrowood Road and Sandy
Porter Road:

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NOTICE TO INTERESTED
PARTIES OF REZONING PETITION/SITE PLAN AMENDMENT AND COMMUNITY
MEETING

Subject:

Petitioner:

Property:

Existing
Zoning:

Rezoning
Requested:

Date and Time
of Community Meeting:

Location
of Community Meeting:

Date of Notice:

Rezoning Petition
No. 2006-014

Merrifield Partners
LLC

Approximately
12.83 acres located east of Sandy
Porter Road, north of West Arrowood Road

We are assisting
Merrifield Partners LLC (the "Petitioner") on a Rezoning Petition
and Site Plan Amendment it recently filed and take this opportunity
to furnish you with the following basic information concerning the
Petition and to invite you to attend a Community Meeting to discuss
it.

Background and Summary of Request:

The purpose of the
rezoning petition is to accommodate commercial and retail
development on the parcel currently zoned R-3 and to amend the
existing 0-(CD) and B-l(CD) site plan for the adjoining parcels to
accommodate interconnectivity between all the parcels.

Community Meeting
Date and Location

The
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission's records indicate that
you are either a representative of a registered neighborhood
organization or an owner of property near the Site. Accordingly, we
are extending an invitation to attend our Community Meeting to be
held on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. at Steele Creek
Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC. Representatives of the Petitioner
look forward to discussing this rezoning proposal with you at the
Community Meeting.

We hope that you will
be able to join us at the Community Meeting on December 15th. In the
meantime, should you have questions or concerns about this matter,
you may call Laura Simmons at (704) 331-5784.